Soft metrology and transparency
1. How is it possible to perform instrumental measurement of
perceived transparency / translucency?
2. The question has a relevant industrial and commercial impact.
The CIE Technical Committee TC1-72 aims to give an up-to-date answer
to a series of problems related to the "soft metrology" of visual
appearance such as glossiness, transparency, texture.
3. I am leading the work relative to the measurement of
transparency, and for this reason I am addressing the vision community
to invite interested people to offer possible contributions.
4. As a first step, we would like, as usual, to collect and
annotate the relevant literature in the field of achromatic and
chromatic transparency. Papers on transparency are really numerous and
I am inviting all willing colleagues to supply either references, or,
still better, full texts of experimental works on transparency /
translucency: to <osvaldo.dapos at unipd.it>.
5. The collected material will be put on the TC1-72 website and be
available to all contributors, whose collaboration will be publicly
acknowledged.
6. Most of the literature on chromatic transparency up to 1999 has
been quoted in a paper of mine which is available at:
http://www.psy.unipd.it/~dapos/.
7. The final outcome of the work will be: a satisfying definition
of the terms, a good phenomenal description of the transparency
appearance, a list of the main models, a list of the main physical
variables affecting the visual appearance of transparency
(psychophysics), the necessary viewing conditions, the most current
applications.
Many thanks for your kind attention, Osvaldo da Pos